Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

I generally stay aloof from the media world I contribute to, and there are both costs and benefits. A cost is that I miss out on networking (though I share contacts on here) but a benefit is missing out on having to feign bonhomie or claiming I love someone’s work bc I know them

The unspoken thing, in both journalism and academia, is that people will promote each other’s work without reading it — this is the common practice. Because if you read some of this stuff, you might engage critically with it, and then you’d be less effective at selling it